Bray v. County Board
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
These two cases involve similar constitutional questions, were heard together and will be disposed of by one opinion.
No. 4087 is a motion for a declaratory judgment, Code section 8-578, alleging that the Arlington Business Privilege License Ordinance adopted by the County Board of Arlington County on February 2, 1949, is invalid because (1) it does not show what statute is relied on as authority for its adoption, and (2) it is a local and special tax prohibited by section 63(5) of the Constitution of Virginia.
The ordinance provides that every person who engages in the practice of law, or in a…
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